Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher From the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Too often, Escher’s skills as a draftsman and printmaker are overshadowed by his brain-twisting themes. This one, though still weird and cool, is more straightforward than some. Apparently drawn from life, with Read More …
Three Worlds, M.C. Escher Lithograph, roughly 14×10 inches (36x25cm). Image on Wikiart, larger here. While it’s not one of Escher’s more obvious brain twisting visual conundrums, it’s a teaser nonetheless — also beautiful, subtle, and one of my favorites. In addition to the thought provoking Read More …
Up and Down, M.C. Escher. One of my favorites from Escher, a simple and elegant brain twist from the master of pulling your perceptions out from under you (and this inspiration for this panel from my webcomic).
One of the things that visual art does at its best is allow us to see the world through fresh eyes, reframing the ordinary as extraordinary. Sometimes, however, the artworks become so iconic and familiar as to need reframing themselves in order to be seen Read More …
M.C. Escher’s visions of strange worlds, impossible objects, and incredible tesselations form an extraordinary bridge between art and mathematics. Critics often revile Escher and try to dismiss him as a creator of “decorative patterns” and “visual tricks”; and of course, he can’t possibly be a Read More …
Robert “Rob” Gonsalves was a Canadian painter adept at crafting images in which reality appears to bend back on itself, connecting with a twist in a kind of mental Möbius strip. Though some would inaccurately consider his work to be Surrealism (which is specifically supposed Read More …